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‘They are wicked’: Myanmar’s strike holdouts keep up junta defiance

Doctors healing patients from hiding, teachers giving up their classrooms and bankers losing their savings are among the stubborn holdouts still on strike to protest Myanmar's military coup six months ago.AFP spoke to a doctor, a teacher and a banker about how they were resisting the junta regime.

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What’s happening in Myanmar, six months after the coup?

Myanmar has endured six months of turmoil since the military deposed the civilian government and ended the country's decade-old experiment with democracy. AFP takes a look at the current state of play inside Myanmar.

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Myanmar coup: six months of turmoil

By AFP Myanmar’s military seized power on February 1, ousting the civilian government and arresting its leaders. More than 900 people have since been killed.

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Rivals struggle to take advantage of military beer boycott

A boycott campaign that has sent sales of military-owned beers plummeting has created shortages of rival products, with breweries unable to meet demand and facing a shortage of cans.

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Rohingya trafficking network sells dreams, delivers violence and extortion

Investigation reveals a sophisticated and always-evolving operation worth many millions of dollars in which members of the Rohingya community play a key role in trafficking.

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As NLD prepares for second term, activists urge defamation reform

An advocacy group has proposed four options for reforming Myanmar’s tangle of criminal defamation clauses, which are being used ever more frequently under the National League for Democracy government.

BY Kaung Hset Naing & Andrew Nachemson

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Burying the dead: Myanmar’s Muslim COVID volunteers

A group of volunteers have been living in cemetaries to isolate from their loved ones while providing crucial funeral rites to the COVID-19 dead among Yangon's Muslim community.

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Bangladesh begins transfer of Rohingya to controversial island

The Bangladeshi government, growing frustrated with the stalled refugee crisis, began transferring hundreds of Rohingya to a low-lying island prone to cyclones and floods.

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Volume 6, Issue 18

January 27, 2021

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Myanmar enters 2021 with more friends than foes

The early delivery of vaccines is one of the many boons of the country’s geopolitics, but to really take advantage, Myanmar must bury the legacy of its isolationist past.

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Will the Kayin BGF go quietly?

The Kayin State Border Guard Force has come under intense pressure from the Tatmadaw over its extensive, controversial business interests and there’s concern the ultimatum could trigger fresh hostilities in one of the country’s most war-torn areas.

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